You may have come across these rational heroes before - they are SO FAMOUS that they each have their own Wiki page, (I know!) so you can imagine it was a pretty daunting for a shmo like me.

Still, it was a total blast and, as seems to happen every time I record one of these things, immediately afterwards I have the fear that I was rubbish, but when the edit comes out, Andy (@inkredulosi) somehow makes it seem not so bad..... Here's a line from Jay that made me feel all warm and wanted :)

As always, the text is below, although the Honey Blues are greatly enhanced by George and his demon guitar-fingered noodling.

I MUST START BLOGGING AGAIN I MUST START BLOGGING AGAIN I MUST START BLOGGING AGAIN I MUST START BLOGGING AGAIN I MUST START BLOGGING AGAIN (ad nauseam)

This is the story of the weird coloured honey
appearing and proof IF PROOF BE NEEDED that all women love chocolate…and it
goes something like this.

I woke up this morning

Doing what I do

I went to my beehive

And all my honey was blue

I got the blues so bad baby,

All my honey has turned blue

And even stranger than what I’d seen

Some of my honey had turned green…

Andy, French farmers have recently been finding that their
honey, which normally consists of sweet sticky sugary honey goodness, currently
consists of sweet sticky sugary honey goodness and a large amount of highly
coloured contamination. Cries of “Sacre Bleu LITTERALEMENT” could be heard
throughout the town of Ribeauvillé as honey farmers stared in amazement at
their jars of blue, green, and turquoise honey. For European listeners,
Ribeauvillé is near Strasbourg and for the US listeners it is …like…. near
Iraq.

Andy, honey is a natural product and bees, of one form or
another, have been making honey for about 30 million years.Which is about 30 million years (give or take
a few thousand) before man was created by God, if US Senate Candidate Todd Akin
(who sits on the House Committee of Science, Space & Tech) is to be
believed. Indeed Mr Akin, won’t believe evolution, but probably would believe
that Samson off of the Bible ate some honey which bees had made inside a Lion’s
carcass, a lion which he had killed with his own bare hands a few verses
earlier. No really, he did. Judges 14 – all true.

As I know you know, I keep bees myself and the honey bee life
cycle is phenomenally interesting and, you’ll be surprised to know, very
different from our human one– for
instance, it is matriarchal society made up of a Queen bee at the top, and
worker bees lower down, all of whom are female. Fancy having a workplace with
women at the top and all the workers women! It’s institutionalised misandry, is
what it is. Every hive has a handful of drone bees whose only real purpose is
to mate – they are effectively dungeon sex-slaves. After a drone has had sex
with a queen, which happens mid-flight, his tiny little bee-cock detaches
inside the queen and pulls out his abdomen, causing the male bee to die.

This has almost never happened to me.

So all the worker bees – and in this newstory, most
importantly the ones who go flying about looking for nectar, - are all women.
Their plan is to go out into the big bad world, using a combination of
ultraviolet and coloured light, smell and random chance to find their food –
pollen for now and nectar to make honey for winter. Once they find a good
source, they can convey this information to other bees. If those bees also find
the good source, they will tell more bees and so on so forth. If the source is
big enough eventually, a high percentage of the foraging bees will end up at
that source.

When the French honeyfarmers near Ribeauvillé came to
collect their honey, it was various shades of blues and green. This meant that
was a fairly big source of highly coloured nectar or nectar like product.

And so it turned out that the source was a biomass plant
processing waste from a local M&M’s production facility, who had left the
waste from the Mars factory uncovered, and the sticky, sugary chocolately mess
had been hovered up by the hungry bees. The bees then regurgitated this highly-coloured
pre-honey, into the honeycomb and then fanned it with their wings to evaporate
off some of the water to leave blue honey.

So there you have it. Weird coloured honey and proof all
women love chocolate.

Keep Libel Laws out of Science

About Me

Who I am is largely irrelevant, and indeed so are most of my thoughts.
Nonetheless, it winds me up that I am supposed to swallow half-truths and untruths relating to scientific claims emanating directly from media sources and indirectly from people who haven't a clue what they're talking about.
Look, you've got me started.
(You can email me at thinkingisdangerousblog AT googlemail DOT com.)